"nearby" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In 1855, the French frigate Semillante, which was transporting soldiers to Crimea, sank nearby, killing all 693 on board.
- A well housing in the front dirt yard, a rusty 1949 Oldsmobile with bullet holes across the windshield sinking on its rims nearby, big yellow tumbleweed skeletons scattered among a few sunflowers, then the raggedy cottonwoods along the creekbed across the road and the majestic snowcapped Midnight Mountains beyond.
- Diana came up beside me and sank to the ground nearby.
- The dreadnought HMS Vanguard sank nearby in 1917, reputedly the worst maritime disaster in UK waters.
- The next day the Catalina found the lifeboat with the crew, and the Aksel nearly sunk nearby.
- It is not to be confused with that of the French warship Maillé Brézé which sank nearby in 1940 but was later removed and cut up in Port Glasgow in 1956.
- The dining room got its carved ceiling and linenfold panelling after a Portuguese ship sank nearby in 1526.
- It was named after the SS Cheviot which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887.
- He sank into a chair nearby, taking her hand in gentle fingers, but she sensed, through the touch, that he, too, was distressed and even frightened.
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